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Things that bother me about Anita Blake
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okami-no-yume.livejournal.com...Okay, to be fair, there are many, many, many things that bother me about Anita Blake, like the rest of us here. But, I'll just focus on one thing.
This probably falls under the category of yet ANOTHER Anita Blake inconsistency among others, but it's a fairly glaring one, I think.
The concept of Anita's aging.
Right, so. We all know that she has three out of four of the vampire marks. It's been many years since I've read the books, and I quit the series cold turkey about eight years ago, so my memory's a little hazy, but from what I remember of the marks, it's supposed to give you certain perks like telepathy with your master, faster healing, better reflexes and so on. I think it was either the first or second mark, but I remember that it said in the AB novels that the human servant aged "almost as slowly as their master" implying that vampires age somehow? Which...they don't as I recall. That's another weird wrinkle in LKH's canon, but I digress. Also, a full fledged human servant gains complete immortality and agelessness.
In the last couple of books, Anita's age has been stated as being thirty or thirty one, and it says she has "laugh lines" on her face.
She was, I believe, twenty four when the books began. She broke the marks with Jean Claude in Circus of the Damned, only to regain them during The Killing Dance. Now, with three out of four of Jean-Claude's marks, it seems to imply in the books that she still ages at more or less the same rate as a regular mortal. I really do not think this should be the case, since by the logic of the marks and as it stands to reason, Anita should NOT look a day over the age of twenty five, at the oldest. She should not have a single wrinkle, and even if she does age, it would be at such a slow rate that it would be a couple of centuries or more before she'd have to start busting out the anti-aging creams. One would think that LKH would want her perfect avatar to remain young and beautiful forever and ever without a single flaw.
Why she hasn't taken the fourth mark and become a full human servant, I don't know. I mean, taking the fourth mark would just be a formality at this point, I think.
This is just one of those things that bothers me. Discuss?
This probably falls under the category of yet ANOTHER Anita Blake inconsistency among others, but it's a fairly glaring one, I think.
The concept of Anita's aging.
Right, so. We all know that she has three out of four of the vampire marks. It's been many years since I've read the books, and I quit the series cold turkey about eight years ago, so my memory's a little hazy, but from what I remember of the marks, it's supposed to give you certain perks like telepathy with your master, faster healing, better reflexes and so on. I think it was either the first or second mark, but I remember that it said in the AB novels that the human servant aged "almost as slowly as their master" implying that vampires age somehow? Which...they don't as I recall. That's another weird wrinkle in LKH's canon, but I digress. Also, a full fledged human servant gains complete immortality and agelessness.
In the last couple of books, Anita's age has been stated as being thirty or thirty one, and it says she has "laugh lines" on her face.
She was, I believe, twenty four when the books began. She broke the marks with Jean Claude in Circus of the Damned, only to regain them during The Killing Dance. Now, with three out of four of Jean-Claude's marks, it seems to imply in the books that she still ages at more or less the same rate as a regular mortal. I really do not think this should be the case, since by the logic of the marks and as it stands to reason, Anita should NOT look a day over the age of twenty five, at the oldest. She should not have a single wrinkle, and even if she does age, it would be at such a slow rate that it would be a couple of centuries or more before she'd have to start busting out the anti-aging creams. One would think that LKH would want her perfect avatar to remain young and beautiful forever and ever without a single flaw.
Why she hasn't taken the fourth mark and become a full human servant, I don't know. I mean, taking the fourth mark would just be a formality at this point, I think.
This is just one of those things that bothers me. Discuss?
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